U.S. Plans New Hunt for Sponsors of Taliban
Monday, June 8, 2009
The New York Times
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and SALMAN MASOOD
Published: June 5, 2009
Published: June 5, 2009
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The top American diplomat for Pakistan, Richard C. Holbrooke, said Friday that he would reinvigorate efforts to trace the sources of financing for the Taliban insurgency, with special scrutiny of private donations.
Mr. Holbrooke said that private donors, including some from Persian Gulf countries, were increasingly believed to be a far more important source of money for the Taliban than even the opium trade, which the United Nations estimates to be about $300 million a year. An American official responsible for Afghanistan said Friday that the opium money was believed to make up less than half of Taliban financing.
“In the past there was a kind of a feeling that the money all came from drugs in Afghanistan,” Mr. Holbrooke said. “That is simply not true.”
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